Automatic adjustable picture-hanger



(No Model.

0. & A. JAEGER.

AUTOMATIC ADJUSTABLE PICTURE HANGER. No. 396,280. Patented Jan.'15, 1889.

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ATEN T AUTOMATIC ADJUSTABLE PICTURE-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,280, dated January 15, 1889.

Application filed April 23, 1888 To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, OTTO JAEGER and ALEXANDER JAE-GER, citizens of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvement-s in Automatic Adjustable Picture- Hangers; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in adjustable hangers for the support of pictures, lookin gglasses, and the like; and the same consists, substantially, in such features of construction, arrangement, and combinations of parts as will hereinafter be more particularly described or pointed out.

The object of the invention is to supply a device of this kind by which pictures and the like may be supported from a wall or other support in such manner as to be capable of adjustments to varying inclinations, and also to supply a device of this kind by which said picture or the like will, by its own weight,be sustained against the wall or other support at whatever degree of inclination or adjustment to which it may be brought.

The invention also has for its object to pro vide a device of such a character that it may be readily secured to a wall or other support and again removed without marrin g or break ing the plastering of such wall or support.

very materially simplify devices of this character, as well as to cheapen their costof manufacture, as compared with many former inventions on the subject.

Finally, the invention has such other objects in view as will more fully hereinafter appear when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 represents a rear perspective view of a picture-frame or the like, showing the same in connection with the adjustable hanger as constructed and arranged in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of'our improved adjustable hanger,

Serial No. 271,539. (No model) the dotted lines representing the manner in which the picture may be adjusted to varying inclinations from its support. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of the bracket by which the top of the picture is supported from the wall or other support; and Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of the bifurcated spring-brace which we eni-' ploy in the carrying out of our invention.

Reference being had to the several parts by the letters marked thereon, A represents a picture frame, tablet, or looking glass, to which, at each bottom corner, we secure eyelets a a, while in the top thereof, centrally, we insert a similar eyelet or hook, I).

B designates a bracket, which in vertical transverse section resembles the capital letter L, and is constructed with a hole, 0, through the base portion, and to each side of such base portion a notch, (Z, is provided. The vertical portion of this bracket B is formed with an opening, 6, for the passage of a nail or rivet, to secure it to a wall or other support, and to the upper and lower sides of this nail-openin g, on the face side of the vertical portion of the bracket, a rib or projection, f, is formed, the purpose of these projections or ribs being to prevent the securing nail or rivet from being driven in too far, by which is facilitated the withdrawal of such nail or rivet by the use of anycommon nail or tack extractor, a perfect understanding of which will be had on glancing at Fig. 2 of the drawings.

O represents a bifurcated brace, which we employ, and which is composed of a single spring-wire having its terminal limbs g g bent into the form of horizontal hooks 7L h, the upper portions of the limbs being twisted at z' to afford a springy and interlocking neck for a square loop, j, the vertical portions of which loop engage the notches (Z (Z of the base portion of the bracket B. The hooks h It fit into the eyelets secured in the bottom corners of the frame, and by virtue of the twist 2', given to the brace, a tendency of the limbs is to approach each other, and thus lock themselves into the eyes in an obvious manner.

D represents a suitable chain, preferably, though not essentially, of the ordinary square or rag-link form, one end of which chain is hooked or secured to the eye I) in the top of the frame, while the other end of said chain passes under the top portion of the loop j of the bifurcated brace, and thence through the hole 0 in the base portion of the bracket B. The free end of this chainis provided with a small ball or pendant, E, by which the same will be maintained taut and the slack thereof taken up when the picture is varied in its adjustment.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that at whatever position or inclination the picture may be brought to it will of its own weight be maintained thereat, since by the chain passing under the loop of the brace the weight of the picture prevents any slipping of the chain, as will be apparent. \Vhen it is desired to change or vary the inclination of the picture, all that is necessary to do is to simply lift the frame slightly, whereupon the loop of the brace will be carried upward away from the chain, and then when the adjustment has been made, by simply again lowering the picture the same will be firmly held in position, as before.

\Ve have described and shown herein certain peculiarities and details in the construction of the several parts contributing to our invention; but we do not wish to be understood as limiting ourselves thereto strictly, since it is obvious that many changes could be resorted to and still come within the scope of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a picture-frame or the like, of an L-shaped bracket formed with an opening in its vertical portion and provided on opposite sides of said opening with the ribs ff, and having in the horizontal portion thereof the hole 0, and notches dd on its edges, the bifurcated brace twisted at i to form the loop j and bent at its ends into hooks, and the chain provided with the pendant E, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

OTTO JAEGER. V ALEXANDER JAEGER.

\Vitnesses:

EDUARD BUcHHoLZ, AUGUST J AEGER. 

